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...inmates in his prison block, the Anchorage Daily News reported.Mattox sued the state for negligence, but PalmerSuperiorCourt Judge Vanessa White threw out the case in 2011. The judge said Mattox didn't show that the corrections department...

...enough to keep Perez in the United States, where Perez lawfully immigrated to as a child.Judge Eric Smith of PalmerSuperiorCourt announced the decision after deliberating with the two other jurists for about an hour. Smith said it was the...

...14-year-old son, Samuel. Welton, who did not testify at her trial, broke down sobbing when the verdict was read in PalmerSuperiorCourt. "Oh, my God," the 38-year-old mother sobbed softly. "How could they think I could do this?" Superior...

...Mielke, 44, is charged in the deaths of Chris Palmer, 31, and Francis Jones, 23. The case is being heard in PalmerSuperiorCourt. Jurors also may consider a lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide. In closing arguments Thursday, prosecutor...

...murder and first-degree arson in a trial that lasted 7 weeks. The trial and Monday's sentencing took place in PalmerSuperiorCourt. Welton and two of her other children - Jeremiah, 16, and Bree, 6 - escaped the September 2000 fire, but Samuel...

...restitution for the Jan. 31 shootings at Williams Reindeer Farm, under terms of a plea bargain announced Friday in PalmerSuperiorCourt. Bennett entered a no contest plea to three charges related to the shootings, one of them a felony. A former...

...March death of Grace Butler. He was scheduled to agree to a plea bargain Friday morning. But at a hearing in PalmerSuperiorCourt, Butler's public defender announced that his client was not ready to plead no contest to second-degree murder...

...calls for him to serve a total prison sentence of 19 years. Knights' state sentencing is scheduled Tuesday in PalmerSuperiorCourt. Knights earlier pleaded no contest to state charges of attempted sexual abuse of a minor and distribution of...

...non-statutory mitigator, which meant Pallenberg was unable to consider it.The three judges - Judges Eric Smith of PalmerSuperiorCourt, Randy Olsen of Fairbanks Superior Court and John Suddock of Anchorage Superior Court - were asked by the Court...